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Holiday cooking can be fun and fabulous AND sometimes frantic. The menu is planned, the guests are on the way. The ingredients for the meal are prepped, the table set and excitement fills the air. Now it’s time to roast a turkey or beef for the holiday. Oh no! The oven is chock full of bountiful , bubbling pans of vegetables, potatoes, pies and much more, cooking happily away. There’s no room for the lovely whole organic turkey ready to be roasted to perfection for your holiday meal.
What to do? Buy another oven? Most of us wish that we could, (unless we are one of the blessed ones who already have a second oven). However, an electric roaster makes an instant extra oven and stress reliever all in one.
Give yourself another oven this holiday!
Choose a electric roaster large enough to accommodate your needs and a little extra. Think about the largest holiday turkey your family enjoys, as well as roast beef, or roasting 2 chickens for weeknight meals, extra to freeze and make broth, (more on that coming up). An excellent family size is 18 quart, or if you have a large family or like to entertain, consider a 22 -24 quart size roaster. If your family is small, or space or budget is a problem, smaller sizes such as 6, 8, 12 quart models work well with smaller cuts of meat.
Some models of electric roasters have an added feature of a convection fan which greatly reduce the cooking time and cook evenly. They usually come with racks to place inside the pan to raise the meat up out of the drippings. We recommend choosing the enamel-lined or stainless steel roaster pans rather than those with a non-stick coating, as these can be toxic. Enamel and stainless clean up easily and do not carry the concerns of toxicity that non-stick coatings do.
Now that we’ve gotten the electric roaster picked out, did you know you can roast the turkey or chicken, or beef in the roaster and then slow cook rich, deep broth in the same one (without washing it out?) True! Seriously!
Perfect Roast Turkey in an electric roaster
1) Prepare your turkey as desired (remove giblets, wash, brine, season etc.). Tuck wings underneath and secure wings and legs with twine.
2) Place turkey breast side down. Add any seasoning.
3) Heat electric roaster (with or without convection fan) to 350 degrees. Place lid on roaster.
4) Roast according to your turkey’s weight and until a thermometer inserted into the thigh reads 165 degrees. Partway though cooking, flip the turkey over, breast-side up, season again if desired..
5) Leave turkey to cool (with lid on) for 20 minutes before carving. Slice serve and enjoy.
Part Two coming up – Making homemade broth in an electric roaster.
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~~In Messiah Yeshua,
Vickilynn Haycraft
Micah 6:8
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